Word: phrasing
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...hands of George Clooney vanishes forever. The instructor tells us that for every minute a victim of cardiac arrest awaits defibrillation, his chances of survival decrease 10%. She pauses long enough for us to do the math--probably dead after 10 minutes. Then she ominously leaves the phrase "In New York City..." hanging in the air. "There is a less than 1% survival rate for cardiac arrest in New York City." Now my fellow students and I are dumbfounded. I vow to never complain about Manhattan siren noise again. And I raise my hand to ask how much aed machines...
...dancers in the rear echoing his steps. Still, Landon, Henson and Robinson have all conjured up moments of vibrant originality. Henson's work tends to be punchy and blunt, Landon's playfully carnal, Robinson's fluidly urban. In the video (You Drive Me) Crazy, Henson has a captivating phrase in which Spears rotates on a chair, her legs splayed, projecting both sensuality and repose. Fatima's choreography for Aaliyah's Try Again ends with the R.-and-B. diva dancing with a black cane, a visual reference to the step shows held by black fraternities. As with a woman...
...Elliott, who went back to school and got a bachelor's degree in psychology at 39 and then a master's in social work at 44, is the kind of person that people mean when they use the phrase lifelong learner. And she's not alone - in an American Association of Retired Persons study published in July, 9 of 10 adults ages 50 and over said they wanted to actively seek out learning opportunities to keep current, grow personally and enjoy the simple pleasure of mastering something new. "We're increasingly becoming aware that learning is a prescription...
...hands of George Clooney vanishes forever. The instructor tells us that for every minute a victim of cardiac arrest awaits defibrillation, his chances of survival decrease 10%. She pauses long enough for us to do the math - probably dead after 10 minutes. Then she ominously leaves the phrase "In New York City..." hanging in the air. "There is a less than 1% survival rate for cardiac arrest in New York City." Now my fellow students and I are dumbfounded. I vow to never complain about Manhattan siren noise again. And I raise my hand to ask how much AED machines...
Time was, selling a tax cut to Americans was about as hard as selling lotto tickets on the day of a $50 million jackpot. Everybody wanted one, no matter how loudly the experts warned against it. Just the phrase "tax cut" had a pleasant, numbing effect on otherwise disgruntled voters...